Groundapple

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An apple that has fallen to the ground.

    "It was a chesol deer, tawny as the Plains grasses when they flowered. A number of other wolves – five, six – followed them; these carried groundapples in their mouths."

  2. 2
    An edible root or tuber, particularly, a potato or turnip. rare, regional

    ""Why, it is a ground-apple," and taking it from her he cut off a piece and put it in his mouth. In an instant, he cried: "You vixen! you knew that was Indian turnip - the most infernal thing that ever grew in a civilized country.""

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"It was a chesol deer, tawny as the Plains grasses when they flowered. A number of other wolves – five, six – followed them; these carried groundapples in their mouths."

Etymology

From ground + apple. Compare earthapple.

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